--Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of web-based tools such as blogs and wikis. The web is not just an information highway, it's a read and write, collaborate, share, create and communicate highway. It's interactive. It's dynamic.
WEB 2.0 Video
Watch this video and see why it's an important piece of educating students.
Blogger.com
BLOG- A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos (or memoirs) to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not. There are many free blog sites on the Internet. Blogger is a free web tool by Google. You can have your very first blog up in a matter of seconds!
Bloglines.com
Bloglines is a web-based aggregator for browsing weblogs and other news feeds. Copy and paste the RSS feed into your Bloglines aggregator and receive instant updates on all of your favorite blogs!
Wikispaces.com
What is a wiki? A wiki is a web-based collaborative working environment which allows a user to post text, photos, or video onto a webpage instantaneously. What's great about wikis is that anyone can edit or make changes to the wiki at any time. You are on wikispaces right now. All you need is an email address, a username, and a password to create a wikispace. If you want students to edit a protected wikispace (where only members can edit), you can make them members without providing email addresses for them (see instructions).
Docs.google.com
Google Docs is a way to collaborate your Word processing pages and spreadsheets with multiple users. Save your work in Google Docs and invite others to join in and collaborate. (Not yet supported for Safari. Use Firefox or IE)
Skype.com
Got Skype? Skype is a free web based tool which allows users to make phone calls right from their computer! And it's free! Make an audio phone call to another person's computer, or if both computers have a video camera attached, a video conference is in order! You can also make Skype calls to landlines and cell phones, but there is a small annual fee to do so.
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.
jumpcut.com
Jumpcut is a place to make movies and interact with people. It's imovie on the web! Create an account in seconds and start editing your video right on the internet. "Clips" on jumpcut are raw video files that you upload from your computer. You can combine clips with photos and music in our editor to make jumpcut "movies".
Flickr.com
Flickr is an online "blog" of photos. Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them. Keep your photos private or share them to the world
Box.net
Box.net currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 500,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people around the world. Box.net's unique platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere. Get 1Gig of storage FREE!
Yackpack.com
Yackpack is a free online "audio conference". It's like a video conference only, you don't see video, just a photo of the person talking. You can have multiple persons in a conference call having a LIVE conversation. So cool!
Wordle.net
Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can print the word clouds out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. The possibilities are endless. There is a presentation from the Ideas To Inspire website; Thirty-Eight Interesting Ways To Use Wordle, that gives some more great examples.
Frappr - Can create maps that can be embedded into webpages or wikispaces. Maps are for a social network and meeting others around the globe. Can create a virtual tour using this technology. Has a nice layout and the map are Google earth in style and function. Not as high quality and don't have the ability to zoom to the ground.
Animoto - Video creation site. Here the user uploads pictures to the site, adds music from the site, and with a single click can create a short 30 second clip of your photos. Can purchase a full length video option. After video is complete simply copy code and past it into web page or wikispace to play an intro to what the user will experience at your site. Has other options to play around with and explore.
SlideShare - Upload PowerPoints to is site and make them accessible to students, colleagues, and other around the web. Copy code to web page or wikispace and have a the presentation available when you page loads or direct them to the site and do a search for the presenatation. Can also create a slidecast where you can link a podcast to you slideshow and have your voice play behind the presentation. Instructions on how to use SlideShare.
SplashCast- Video site, where you can incorporate many different sources into one presentation such as pdf, pictures, video, rss, ppt and much more. All this information allows the user to create a presentation that includes all relevant material for students and colleagues to see.
Twitter- Let everyone know what your doing before, during, or after you have done it. Follow others and what they are doing to get ideas for your classroom. Site allows for following people socially. Can allow anyone to follow you or set up to get permission to follow.
Go2Web20 - Great source for finding out the latest in Web20 technology and applications. At the site one has the ability to see specific applications that are available to all of us out on the web. Click on an application of interest and a summary of the application will appear at the bottom of the screen, click the link to further explore.
Widgetbox - Great site if you looking for widgets to put into your webpage. Simply browse the content copy the code and insert into your webpage, wiki, etc.. Really adds spice to your web content.
Blabberize - This is a great service which allows the user to upload pictures to it. These pictures can then be transformed into talking heads by selecting the area you want to move during the speaking and record your own voice. You have 2 minutes of audio for the recording. Nice way to introduce a topic to a class or have a "discussion" between two talking heads.
xtranormal - This allows students to write in their text and they are able to customize their movie by selecting their avatars, background, expressions, and camera shots.
Glogster - Allows you to create an Educational account where you can setup student accounts which you manage. Glogster is a place to create interactive posters where you can insert text, images, photos, audio (MP3), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Make sure you download their "Educator Resource Library" which contains curriculum lessons on how to use Glogster and examples for these lessons.
Web 2.0
--Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of web-based tools such as blogs and wikis. The web is not just an information highway, it's a read and write, collaborate, share, create and communicate highway. It's interactive. It's dynamic.
WEB 2.0 Video
Watch this video and see why it's an important piece of educating students.
Blogger.com
BLOG- A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos (or memoirs) to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not. There are many free blog sites on the Internet. Blogger is a free web tool by Google. You can have your very first blog up in a matter of seconds!
Bloglines.com
Bloglines is a web-based aggregator for browsing weblogs and other news feeds. Copy and paste the RSS feed into your Bloglines aggregator and receive instant updates on all of your favorite blogs!
Wikispaces.com
What is a wiki? A wiki is a web-based collaborative working environment which allows a user to post text, photos, or video onto a webpage instantaneously. What's great about wikis is that anyone can edit or make changes to the wiki at any time. You are on wikispaces right now. All you need is an email address, a username, and a password to create a wikispace. If you want students to edit a protected wikispace (where only members can edit), you can make them members without providing email addresses for them (see instructions).
Docs.google.com
Google Docs is a way to collaborate your Word processing pages and spreadsheets with multiple users. Save your work in Google Docs and invite others to join in and collaborate. (Not yet supported for Safari. Use Firefox or IE)
Skype.com
Got Skype? Skype is a free web based tool which allows users to make phone calls right from their computer! And it's free! Make an audio phone call to another person's computer, or if both computers have a video camera attached, a video conference is in order! You can also make Skype calls to landlines and cell phones, but there is a small annual fee to do so.
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.
jumpcut.com
Jumpcut is a place to make movies and interact with people. It's imovie on the web! Create an account in seconds and start editing your video right on the internet. "Clips" on jumpcut are raw video files that you upload from your computer. You can combine clips with photos and music in our editor to make jumpcut "movies".
Flickr.com
Flickr is an online "blog" of photos. Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them. Keep your photos private or share them to the world
Box.net
Box.net currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 500,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people around the world. Box.net's unique platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere. Get 1Gig of storage FREE!
Yackpack.com
Yackpack is a free online "audio conference". It's like a video conference only, you don't see video, just a photo of the person talking. You can have multiple persons in a conference call having a LIVE conversation. So cool!
Wordle.net
Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can print the word clouds out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. The possibilities are endless. There is a presentation from the Ideas To Inspire website; Thirty-Eight Interesting Ways To Use Wordle, that gives some more great examples.
Frappr - Can create maps that can be embedded into webpages or wikispaces. Maps are for a social network and meeting others around the globe. Can create a virtual tour using this technology. Has a nice layout and the map are Google earth in style and function. Not as high quality and don't have the ability to zoom to the ground.
Animoto - Video creation site. Here the user uploads pictures to the site, adds music from the site, and with a single click can create a short 30 second clip of your photos. Can purchase a full length video option. After video is complete simply copy code and past it into web page or wikispace to play an intro to what the user will experience at your site. Has other options to play around with and explore.
SlideShare - Upload PowerPoints to is site and make them accessible to students, colleagues, and other around the web. Copy code to web page or wikispace and have a the presentation available when you page loads or direct them to the site and do a search for the presenatation. Can also create a slidecast where you can link a podcast to you slideshow and have your voice play behind the presentation. Instructions on how to use SlideShare.
SplashCast- Video site, where you can incorporate many different sources into one presentation such as pdf, pictures, video, rss, ppt and much more. All this information allows the user to create a presentation that includes all relevant material for students and colleagues to see.
Twitter- Let everyone know what your doing before, during, or after you have done it. Follow others and what they are doing to get ideas for your classroom. Site allows for following people socially. Can allow anyone to follow you or set up to get permission to follow.
Go2Web20 - Great source for finding out the latest in Web20 technology and applications. At the site one has the ability to see specific applications that are available to all of us out on the web. Click on an application of interest and a summary of the application will appear at the bottom of the screen, click the link to further explore.
Widgetbox - Great site if you looking for widgets to put into your webpage. Simply browse the content copy the code and insert into your webpage, wiki, etc.. Really adds spice to your web content.
Blabberize - This is a great service which allows the user to upload pictures to it. These pictures can then be transformed into talking heads by selecting the area you want to move during the speaking and record your own voice. You have 2 minutes of audio for the recording. Nice way to introduce a topic to a class or have a "discussion" between two talking heads.
xtranormal - This allows students to write in their text and they are able to customize their movie by selecting their avatars, background, expressions, and camera shots.
Glogster - Allows you to create an Educational account where you can setup student accounts which you manage. Glogster is a place to create interactive posters where you can insert text, images, photos, audio (MP3), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Make sure you download their "Educator Resource Library" which contains curriculum lessons on how to use Glogster and examples for these lessons.
Other Notable Web 2.0 Tools worth viewing...
Picnik.com
Cuts.com
Zoho.com
Stainedglasscollage.com
Blurb.com or Mixbook.com